San Francisco State

In his first meeting with Lynn's softball team, first-year coach Thomas Macera said if the team batting average was .325, the team ERA was under 1.00 and the team fielding percentage was .975, the team would be in the national championship for the first time. The Knights improved their hitting from .249 to .322, the ERA dropped from 1.20 to 0.73 and fielding percentage jumped from .949 to .966 for the regular season. The No. 7 Knights (50-7) open the NCAA Division II national championship tournament at 2:30 p.m. today at Salem, Va. when they play San Francisco State (47-19)

In his first meeting with Lynn's softball team, first-year coach Thomas Macera said if the team batting average was .325, the team ERA was under 1.00 and the team fielding percentage was .975, the team would be in the national championship for the first time. The Knights improved their hitting from .249 to .322, the ERA dropped from 1.20 to 0.73 and fielding percentage jumped from .949 to .966 for the regular season. The No. 7 Knights (50-7) open the NCAA Division II national championship tournament at 2:30 p.m. today at Salem, Va. when they play San Francisco State (47-19)

Eleven years ago he was teaching high school history by day and playing Manifold Mike, lead crooner with Big Bop and the Choppers, by night. Today he`s head coach of the Green Bay Packers. He`s still working day and night, but his paycheck, and acclaim, have gone several leagues north. If anyone in the NFL has had a more incredible run of good fortune than the big walrus, Mike Holmgren, please point him out. The sea has done an awful lot of parting for a 44-year-old guy who bears no resemblance to Moses.

Luis Felipe Baptista, an internationally known California Academy of Sciences ornithologist who explored the relationship between bird song and classical music, died Monday at his home in Sonoma. He was 58. Mr. Baptista was known for his scientific research in the field of bioacoustics, animal behavior and the evolutionary study of birds. Mr. Baptista, who spoke at least five languages, began studying the hybridization of human languages before his death. "All of us at the academy are profoundly saddened and shocked by the loss of this dear friend and colleague," said Patrick Kociolek, the executive director of the academy.

Luis Felipe Baptista, an internationally known California Academy of Sciences ornithologist who explored the relationship between bird song and classical music, died Monday at his home in Sonoma. He was 58. Mr. Baptista was known for his scientific research in the field of bioacoustics, animal behavior and the evolutionary study of birds. Mr. Baptista, who spoke at least five languages, began studying the hybridization of human languages before his death. "All of us at the academy are profoundly saddened and shocked by the loss of this dear friend and colleague," said Patrick Kociolek, the executive director of the academy.

Mike Holmgren was headed for an emotional black hole. Who knows? Maybe he was already there and didn't know it. The big man with the walrus mustache who has taken the Green Bay Packers to their first Super Bowl in 30 years was 24 years old, recently married, the father of twin girls and in only the second coaching assignment of his life. And Sacred Heart High School of San Francisco was buried in a losing streak that would reach 24. "We had lost every game since I came there as an assistant, including some very close ones I thought we should have won," Holmgren said.

Orrin Freeman went to school with O.J., gave Green Bay Packers coach Mike Holmgren his first big break and held a stopwatch to Dallas Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman. Makes you wonder if Freeman's office belongs on the Dolphins' side of Joe Robbie Stadium, instead of the Marlins'. But when the 45-year-old Freeman oversees his first draft as the Marlins' scouting director this afternoon, there will be no mistaking his baseball pedigree: -- A player and assistant coach for Rod Dedeaux's national powerhouses at USC, where his teammates included Dave Kingman and Fred Lynn; -- A graduate assistant under Jerry Kindall at the University of Arizona, where he won another national championship; -- Head coach at San Francisco State, which hadn't had a winning season in 20 years until he got there.

SAN FRANCISCO -- State Assemblyman Art Agnos, the son of Greek immigrants, won a runoff election to succeed Mayor Dianne Feinstein on Tuesday night, running ahead of Supervisor John Molinari by more than a 2-1 margin. Molinari conceded less than two hours after the polls closed.

Frank Rowe, who won three awards for his book that chronicled the fight over a state loyalty oath during the McCarthy era, has died at the age of 63. Rowe died Sunday of cardiac arrest. He was one of nine faculty members fired by San Francisco State College in 1950 for refusing to sign the California loyalty oath. He was barred from teaching in the state from 1950 until 1967, when the state Supreme Court struck down the oath. The Enemy Among Us was a history of the oath fight during the McCarthy era. It won three awards in 1980: The California Federation of Teachers Civil Liberties Union Award, the United Professors of California Academic Freedom Award and the Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award in the book category.

Mike Holmgren was headed for an emotional black hole. Who knows? Maybe he was already there and didn't know it. The big man with the walrus mustache who has taken the Green Bay Packers to their first Super Bowl in 30 years was 24 years old, recently married, the father of twin girls and in only the second coaching assignment of his life. And Sacred Heart High School of San Francisco was buried in a losing streak that would reach 24. "We had lost every game since I came there as an assistant, including some very close ones I thought we should have won," Holmgren said.

Orrin Freeman went to school with O.J., gave Green Bay Packers coach Mike Holmgren his first big break and held a stopwatch to Dallas Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman. Makes you wonder if Freeman's office belongs on the Dolphins' side of Joe Robbie Stadium, instead of the Marlins'. But when the 45-year-old Freeman oversees his first draft as the Marlins' scouting director this afternoon, there will be no mistaking his baseball pedigree: -- A player and assistant coach for Rod Dedeaux's national powerhouses at USC, where his teammates included Dave Kingman and Fred Lynn; -- A graduate assistant under Jerry Kindall at the University of Arizona, where he won another national championship; -- Head coach at San Francisco State, which hadn't had a winning season in 20 years until he got there.

Eleven years ago he was teaching high school history by day and playing Manifold Mike, lead crooner with Big Bop and the Choppers, by night. Today he`s head coach of the Green Bay Packers. He`s still working day and night, but his paycheck, and acclaim, have gone several leagues north. If anyone in the NFL has had a more incredible run of good fortune than the big walrus, Mike Holmgren, please point him out. The sea has done an awful lot of parting for a 44-year-old guy who bears no resemblance to Moses.

San Franscisco State University President Robert Corrigan didn't let high-sounding words like "academic freedom" and "student empowerment" get in the way of a crackdown on anti-Semitism at his institution. Good for Corrigan. In an age when college presidents often are afraid to challenge student actions, Corrigan has shown some real backbone. A controversy developed at San Francisco State when students painted a mural on the wall of the student union commemorating the life of Malcolm X. The mural included some blatantly anti-Semitic representations.

Jules Tygiel, a baseball historian and author who used the sport to illuminate larger issues of American culture and society, died of cancer Tuesday at his home in San Francisco. He was 59. "Jules . . . was able to pull off the double play of combining his two loves, history and baseball, to become the foremost baseball historian in the United States today," said John Gemello, provost of San Francisco State University, where Dr. Tygiel taught for 31 years. His 1983 book, Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy, is regarded as one of the best about the man who altered the course of history when he became Major League Baseball's first black player in 1947 with the Brooklyn Dodgers.